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  • Quanto majoribus beneficiis a Deo cumulatur, tanto obligatiorem se debitorem fateri.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • I pray thee tell me how thou likest my sweetheart, as she asked her sister in Aristenaetus, [5736] whom I so much admire, methinks he is the sweetest gentleman, the properest man that ever I saw: but I am in love, I confess (nec pudet fateri) and cannot therefore well judge.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Horum etiam mores, et continentiam populorum, in sequentibus declarabo: sicut veraciter fateri possum, ipse ad filiam cuiusdam sui Principis me obtulit vxorare, et magnis dotari possessionibus, dummodò Christianitati resignassem: Eúmque dimisi Soldanum, quando de partibus illis recessi.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Horum etiam mores, et continentiam populorum, in sequentibus declarabo: sicut veraciter fateri possum, ipse ad filiam cuiusdam sui Principis me obtulit vxorare, et magnis dotari possessionibus, dummod� Christianitati resignassem: E鷐que dimisi Soldanum, quando de partibus illis recessi.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • For the phrase _uera fateri_ Hilberg (35-36) cited as parallels _Met_ VII 728 & IX 53, _Tr_ I ix 16, _EP_ III i 79 'si uis _uera fateri_', _EP_ III ix 19 'quid enim dubitem tibi _uera fateri_?', to which add _EP_ II iii 7.

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • He makes a point of acknowledging his obligations to other writers (praef. 21, 'in his voluminibus auctorum nomina praetexui, est enim benignum ... et plenum ingenui pudoris fateri per quos profeceris'); cf. the lists of authorities, Roman and foreign, prefixed to the work.

    The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

  • At present I feel myself obliged to take the advice of Winer, in his _Lexicon_, "Satius est ignorantiam fateri quam argutari."

    Notes and Queries, Number 59, December 14, 1850 Various

  • _Met_ IX 43, X 394 & XI 440; the impersonal construction at _Met_ V 533, IX 53 'certum est mihi uera fateri' & X

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • Other instances in Ovid of _peccasse fateri_ at hexameter-ends are _Am_ III xiv 37, _Met_ III 718, VII 748 & XI 134, and _EP_ II iii 33.

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • Nec me pudet, ut istos, fateri nescire quid nesciam.

    Pens��es 1623-1662 1944

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